Author Archive for:
Search
Search by Category
- Abolitionism (18)
- Announcement (37)
- Art (9)
- Black Lives Matter (16)
- Books (25)
- Capitalism (40)
- Conspiracy Theories (3)
- COVID-19 (61)
- Crime & Illegality (4)
- Education (10)
- Elections (33)
- Environment (6)
- Everyday Life (117)
- Fascism (15)
- From the Archives (59)
- Gender (2)
- George Floyd Rebellion (20)
- Healthcare (13)
- Immigration (9)
- Indigenous Struggles (1)
- January 6th (2)
- LGBTQIA (5)
- Mass Media (11)
- Mass Shootings (1)
- Movies & TV (23)
- Music (23)
- Organizing (48)
- Palestine (16)
- Poetry (3)
- Police (36)
- Pop Culture (35)
- Prison (28)
- Protest & Resistance (33)
- Race (53)
- Remembrance / Obituary (24)
- Repression (8)
- Reproductive Justice (12)
- Revolution (2)
- South Africa (14)
- Sports (18)
- Trump (38)
- US History (41)
- War (15)
- White Supremacy (30)
- Work (45)
- World History (16)
A Small Slice of Private Life
For a few years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I had the good fortune to be in a relationship with Clem Maharaj, a former jazz drummer from Trinidad whose mother had taken the precaution ...
CATEGORY:
Above the Cloudline
Weโre sitting on the front veranda of a small house in the mountains, maybe 90 minutesโ drive from the Colombian city of Bucaramanga, whose beauty queen has just been crowned Miss Colombia. I know this because ...
CATEGORY:
A Glimpse of Nablus
I probably won’t live long enough to bring into being a film I’ve thought about making in Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, from the time the Women’s Press sent a preview copy of Palestinian poet ...
CATEGORY:
More from the Vault: A Brief Encounter with Orlando Pirates
The following piece appeared in Issue #7 of Hard Crackers Magazine, which can be purchased here. ย I don’t know why I looked round towards our production vehicle. We were in Soweto, in late afternoon sunshine, ...
CATEGORY:
ON THE TB WARD: A few stories of lungs
When I was being treated for TB in the old St Mary’s Hospital on Harrow Road in London โ this was in 1972, a long time ago โ the nurses used to give the patients a ...
CATEGORY: